The passengers and/or the driver are not the ones to blame, the rapist is the guilty party. However, I cant help but wonder how anyone could have sat there and watched the awkward moment where she begs to be let off the 20p... I would have just given her the 20p.

(Original post by Soph.Jade)
Why didn't she just take the bus and get a ticket for £4.80 and walk the rest of the way?

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From my knowledge of London buses, it's a single standard fare for the entirety of one journey, regardless of how long that journey is. It's the same fare for both a five-minute journey and a forty minute one on the same bus - I'm assuming this is why.

On topic, the rape occurring is not the bus drivers fault, nor is it the girls' fault. It is solely and exclusively the fault of the rapist. The girls' lack of money, passengers' apathy and bus drivers' lack of sympathy may have led to the situation in which the rapist and girl game into contact, but no-one sensible suggests that anyone aside from the rapist is at fault for a rape.

An awful crime, which sadly has been desensitised to most due to the influx of false rape claims. Let us hope that whoever caused this will rot. Sadly, they'll actually have a better time than most innocent people will ever have, which makes me question what the point is.

(Original post by kopite493)
stupid selfish southern bastards
this would never happen in the north

No, you're right.

If this WAS the north every girl under 16 would be pregnant and we would be propping them up. There'd at least be no fear of getting pregnant by being raped at least.

Of course it's solely the fault of the rapist and in no way am I disputing that but also part of me thinks that the bus driver has some sort of moral responsibility because it's his responsibility to ensure that his passengers get to their destination safety. Technically this lady wasn't a passenger since she never actually bought a ticket but surely some sort of unwritten rule should be enforced in bus/train/ companies that if your potential passenger is short of change and is a vulnerable passenger in a vulnerable position you let them on.

In regards to the other passengers they obviously didn't want to get involved. Parents raise their kids to be non violent e.g not rapists/murderers etc and it's drilled into us from an early age that this is wrong. But what parents and the education system fail to teach us is that it is also wrong to act as a bystander who does nothing.

For example, my friend was walking home (she's 18) and witnessed a really violent attack (2 guys on 1) and there were people standing across the road who simply did nothing, just looked. It's pathetic when an 18 year old girl has to start yelling at the attackers and call the police when there are older males who just watch.

Also, my ex boyfriend was on a train when some passengers started being really racist to another passenger. He was 17 at the time and told them to stop which led to them being verbally aggressive to him. No one defended my ex or told the boys to stop.

Yes it's disgusting what the rapist did but it's also wrong to be a bystander. I'd have given the girl the money and told the bus driver what a wNker he was

Wtf, they should have lent her the 20p anyway, what is wrong with people? If you're so tight that you can't lend someone 20p at 3am when she's obviously made the right decision not to walk home, then you're a disgrace and while it's obviously not the passengers' fault that this sick **** raped her, it should prey on their consciences' i would imagine.

It's.... 20p FFS.

I'm honest to God sick of people like that; i hope they all lose their jobs and then are begging for 20p themselves.